To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIRThe only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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